One of the major milestones for Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) was completed on Monday with the arrival of Orion’s Pressure Vessel at the launch site. The capsule hardware was constructed at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans ahead of a trip on a NASA Super Guppy aircraft to the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).
For the first time since 1981 NASA test flew a new vehicle designed to carry…
The proposed mission to send two astronauts to a captured asteroid near the Moon won’t occur until…
The Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) Orion has taken her final journey on terra firma,…
Years in the planning, and NASA’s first step toward returning humans to deep space exploration,…
As the launch date for Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) closes in, the Orion team…
Orion’s first trip into space has been delayed by nearly three months, following a manifest…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is deep into the business end of its preparations for the Exploration…
Just months after changing Exploration Mission -2 (EM-2) into an asteroid rendezvous mission, NASA managers…
With the Exploration Flight Test -1 (EFT-1) mission now at the T-15 months stage, Orion…
NASA’s first Orion to head into space is continuing to be pieced together, with a…
NASA’s Spacecraft and Payload Integration Office (SPIO) has outlined the complex process of integrating Orion…
The first crewed mission of NASA’s Beyond Earth Orbit (BEO) exploration era will send a…
After a somewhat unhappy childhood, that included an abrupt and costly cancellation, the Orion program…
Preparations for Orion’s first journey into space are accelerating, as flight controllers at the Johnson…
The debut of the Space Launch System (SLS) will send the Orion (MPCV) on a…
United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV rocket has successfully launched Tuesday on its final flight, the…
NASA and its advisory bodies remain concerned about the low flight rate planned for its…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) delivered the last-ever Space Launch System (SLS) Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage…
United Launch Alliance’s penultimate Delta IV Heavy rocket took flight on the NROL-68 mission Thursday,…
